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Mat 26:71. Ἐξελθόντα, as he was going forth) The flying from temptation, when it is too late, involves fresh danger.-ἄλλη, another) sc. maid-servant; and simultaneously the former, who instigated this other, and also a male attendant. See Mar 14:69, and Luk 22:58. The denial, made under one impulse, to the questions of more than one interrogator, is considered as one: and yet he is said to have denied thrice:[1164] [how often, therefore, must he have uttered the denial!]-Ἰησοῦ τοῦ Ναζωραίου, Jesus the Nazarene) the surname Nazarene is added to distinguish Him from the many others who bore the name at that time. The Son of God bore a name common amongst men.
[1164] The threefold denial of Peter is not to be reckoned by the distinctness of the persons, who interrogated him indiscriminately, nor with reference to the variety of expressions, several of which were comprised in one denial; but in relation to the diversity of place, time, and degree, characterizing each denial respectively. His first simple denial was succeeded by an oath, and this was succeeded thirdly by curses and imprecations added to the former protestations: Mat 26:70; Mat 26:72; Mat 26:74.-Harm., p. 535.